Tag: behavioural experiments

Use it in CBT sessions, self-help work or supported homework to help adults with health anxiety identify avoided people, places, activities and ‘just in case’ safety behaviours, then begin turning…

The core belief action plan worksheet is the practical centrepiece here, helping people turn balanced beliefs into small, planned actions. It focuses on using CBT-style behavioural experiments, life domains and…

Use it in CBT sessions, self-help work or between-session practice to plan gradual steps towards feared social situations, rather than avoiding them. The module focuses on social anxiety avoidance, explaining…

The Brain Bully Information Sheet is a printable CBT-based tool designed to help teenagers and older young people recognise and challenge unhelpful thoughts that damage their confidence, increase anxiety, or stop them from doing things they enjoy.

In everyday CBT practice and reflective conversations about anxiety, safety behaviours can be easier to spot when they are written down and reviewed step by step. The form supports people…

In everyday anxiety work, negative predictions are often the thoughts that keep avoidance and safety behaviours going. A printable CBT handout like this can support reflection, discussion and between-session practice…

The downward arrow exercise helps people trace anxious social thoughts back to deeper core beliefs, such as feeling unlikeable, inadequate or likely to be rejected. It is a practical CBT-style…

Helps people spot anxious predictions before they lead to avoidance, escape or safety behaviours. The sheet explains how biased expectations can show up when low self-esteem is triggered, then outlines…

In CBT sessions, therapy homework, or supported self-help at home, this module can help adults and older teenagers notice the subtle avoidance habits that keep social anxiety and social phobia…

In a CBT session, anxiety group, or at home between appointments, this module can help someone notice the subtle safety behaviours that keep panic attacks and fear of panic going….

The behavioural experiment framework shows how to test a painful core belief by writing down a prediction, trying a task, recording what happened, and forming a more balanced belief. It…

Gain a clearer way to spot the rigid rules, shoulds, musts and assumptions that keep perfectionism going. The handout explains how unrealistic standards develop, how they affect self-worth, and how…

The five-step behavioural experiment framework walks people through making an anxious prediction, testing it safely, checking the evidence, noticing what actually happened, and reflecting on what they learned. It is…

Clients experiencing health anxiety, and practitioners supporting them in CBT-informed work, may find this printable module useful for looking at repeated body checking, symptom monitoring, internet searching and reassurance seeking….

Trying to work out whether checking, over-organising, procrastinating or avoiding tasks is keeping perfectionism going can be difficult without a clear handout to refer to. This information sheet explains common…

Use it in CBT sessions, counselling appointments or personal anxiety work to help someone test anxious predictions rather than avoiding the situation or relying on safety behaviours. The handout is…

CBT therapists, counsellors and clients working on low self-esteem can use this printable worksheet to identify rigid personal rules, conditional assumptions and unhelpful beliefs that keep self-criticism going. It is…

Use it in therapy sessions, guided self-help or between-session homework to choose one perfectionism behaviour, break it into manageable steps, and test what happens when rigid standards are gently loosened….

The “Free Workbook for Adults – Unhelpful Thoughts: Challenging and Testing Them Out” is a comprehensive self-help tool based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) principles. It os designed to help…

The “Behavioural Experiments Booklet” from the University of Exeter is a resource that offers a practical approach to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) by guiding users through the process of designing and…